Statements of thinkers of the era. Quotes from philosophers and thinkers

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Issue topic: philosophical quotes and statements on various topics:

This world is just a canvas of our imagination. Henry David Thoreau.
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A person has no right to consider himself a philosopher if there has never been an attempt on his life. Thomas de Quincey
Imagination is the only weapon against reality. Jules de Gautier.
Philosophers are nothing more than blacksmiths preparing a plough. How many things have to happen before the bread can be brought to the mouth. Karl Ludwig Berne

Every philosophy, or science of science, is criticism. The idea of philosophy is a diagram of the Future. Novalis
Philosophical arguments that cannot be understood by every educated person are not worth the printing ink. Ludwig Büchner
Friendship is only possible between good people. Cicero
Philosophy is the medicine of the soul. Cicero Marcus Tullius
If you don't run while you're healthy, you'll have to run when you're sick. Horace
Philosophy is inseparable from coldness. He who cannot be cruel enough towards his own feelings should not philosophize. Ernst Feuchtersleben
Knowing what we can know is philosophy; humility and hypothesis, where knowledge ceases, is religion. Joachim Rachel
The philosophy of each specialty is based on the connection of the latter with other specialties, at the points of contact of which it must be sought. Henry Thomas Buckle
To mock philosophy is to truly philosophize. Blaise Pascal
Philosophy is not something secondary, but fundamental. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you have, it's meaningless. If you have imagination... You can make a straw holiday. Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
Philosophy must reflect the life of the people, and this life at every step, at every phase must give rise to a new point of view. The systems created in the past were stuck in one place, they had already outlived their usefulness the moment their last thought was put on paper. Life moves forward, and so does its philosophy. For those who see philosophy only in books with philosophical titles, what significance can philosophy have in the life of some common people? Blind people! His philosophy stems from his own life. As life is, so is its philosophy. Mikael Lazarevich Nalbandyan
He who values little things for their own sake is an empty man; he who values them for the sake of the conclusions that can be drawn from them, or for the sake of the benefits that can be obtained from them, is a philosopher. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Philosophy is the processing of concepts. Johann Friedrich Herbart
People willingly believe what they want to believe. Caesar
Philosophy is sweet milk in misfortune. William Shakespeare
A man capable of action is doomed to be loved. Coco Chanel
Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein.
Thinking is easy, acting is quite difficult, and putting your thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Triumph over oneself is the crown of philosophy. Diogenes of Sinope
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only nonentities feel sorry for themselves. Haruki Murakami
What we experience when we are in love is perhaps a normal state. Falling in love shows a person what he should be
No one can escape the impressions of his surroundings; and what is called a new philosophy or a new religion is usually not so much the creation of new ideas as a new direction given to ideas already common among modern thinkers. Henry Thomas Buckle
Happy is not the one who seems like that to someone, but the one who feels like that. Publilius Syrus
But why change the processes of nature? There may be a deeper philosophy than we have ever dreamed of - a philosophy that reveals the secrets of nature, but does not change its course by penetrating it. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Force modern philosophy not in syllogisms, but in air support. Victor Pelevin
O philosophy, leader of life!.. You gave birth to cities, you convened scattered people into the community of life. Cicero Marcus Tullius
The philosophers' contempt for wealth was caused by their innermost desire to take revenge on unjust fate for not rewarding them with the blessings of life; it was a secret remedy from the humiliations of poverty, and a roundabout way to the honor usually brought by wealth. Francois ds La Rochefoucauld
The answer to the questions that philosophy leaves unanswered is that they must be posed differently. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truly, just as he has no ears, so these eyes are closed to the light of truth... This kind of people thinks that philosophy is some kind of book, like the Aeneid or the Odyssey, but truth must be sought not in the world, not in nature , but in comparison of texts. Galileo Galilei

According to Plato, man is created for philosophy; according to Bacon, philosophy is for man.
Superficiality in philosophy inclines the human mind towards atheism, depth - towards religion. Francis Bacon
Pythagoras was the first to give philosophy its name. Apuleius
First of all, I would like to find out what philosophy is... The word "philosophy" denotes the practice of wisdom and that by wisdom is meant not only prudence in affairs, but also a perfect knowledge of everything that a person can know; this same knowledge that guides life itself, serves the preservation of health, as well as discoveries in all sciences. Rene Descartes
An optimist is a man sitting on a tram and trying to get acquainted
Bring philosophy down to earth. Cicero Marcus Tullius
The new philosophy is a philosophy that never rests, never reaching its goal, perfection. Its law is progress. The area that was not visible yesterday is today the scene of its action, tomorrow it will be its starting point.
with a blonde standing next to her. Salami Kozherski
Nothing can be said that has not been said before. Terence
Because there can be nothing more beautiful." than achieving truth, then obviously it is worth engaging in philosophy, which is the search for truth. Pierre Gassendi
There is no such nonsense that some philosopher has not taught. Cicero Marcus Tullius

Until now, quotes from philosophers from different eras have not lost their relevance. By studying them, you can learn a lot, as well as recharge yourself with calmness, optimism and self-confidence.

Quotes from ancient Greek philosophers about life

It was ancient Greek philosophy that played a leading role in the formation of the philosophy of European countries. The sages of antiquity raised such important questions, How:

contrasting materialism with idealism;
separation of rationalistic and empirical knowledge of the world;
the essence of thinking;
identifying the differences between a life of duty and a life of hedonism.

The philosophers of this time can be called: Epicurus and Aristotle, Pythagoras and Democritus, Demosthenes and Homer, as well as Plato. Ancient Greek philosophy includes Greek and Roman philosophy, which lasted a total of over a thousand years. IN Ancient Greece The development of this science was carried out by aristocrats, as well as travelers who brought writing from the Phoenicians.

Aphorisms ancient Greek philosophers talk about life different character depending on which philosophical movement their authors belonged to. Thus, Homer wrote a lot about heroes, gods and immortality, accessible only to a few. Pythagoras, like the supporters of Orphism, considered life to be suffering for the soul and saw death as a deliverance from it. Moreover, in his opinion, with death occurs the transmigration of souls, or metempsychosis.

Followers of the Milesian school studied the origin of life on Earth in more detail. Many of them were convinced that the beginning of all things was fire, which lives forever, and everything that is generated by it is finite or mortal. Some sages argued that non-existence does not exist at all - there is only being.

Democritus described the human soul as full of warmth, which in itself is the fundamental principle of all living things. Moreover, everything living, in his opinion, is animated in different ways. The more warmth there is in the soul of a living being, the more perfect it is. The same philosopher assures that the afterlife is nothing more than a myth, since after death the soul scatters into many atoms and disappears. A deceased person stops holding these atoms within himself through breathing, and they scatter and mix with the atoms contained in the air.

The main idea of the Ancient Greek philosophy about life is that you need to live a full life and not be afraid of death. Resistance to death is meaningless, as is grieving for the departed. Man is the only creator of morality and laws, which are the main criteria of virtue.

The main precepts of the philosophers of this era are as follows:

Everything in life should be done based on unconditional love.
You should never lose heart, complain about fate or live in the past.
You don’t need to recklessly believe everything that other people say, but you need to trust yourself in any situation.
You should always keep your thoughts positive and not lose faith.
When a situation becomes difficult, only within yourself can you find the strength to overcome it.

Thus, the ancient teaching about life is inseparable from the desire to overcome the fear of death. Subsequently, the immortality of the soul, which reduces the tragedy of death, was adopted by many religions.

Quotes from medieval philosophers

Medieval philosophy began its existence in the 5th century and ended in the 15th century. Its main element was an attempt to unite people divided into estates, classes, nationalities and occupations, with the help of a common religion - Christianity. Many philosophers were convinced that by becoming Christians, people would be able in the future, afterlife to become equal to each other, regardless of what their lives on earth were like. Promoting the idea of immortality – distinctive feature this time.

The attitude towards nature has changed. If ancient philosophy considered nature as a separate element of the universe, now in the Middle Ages it became only a tool in the hands of man. Scientific study of it was suspended, people sought to use its wealth, thinking little about their replenishment.

Speaking about human self-awareness, it is important to note that the Middle Ages were a time when main characteristic a person becomes his will (in ancient times it was the mind). People who have not been able to subjugate their own will can realize goodness, but at the same time do evil. The poet's leading philosophical thought was that no one can defeat evil without God's help.

Philosophical thought went through three periods:

The Apologetics period, when early Christian symbols and rituals were revised and the existence of God was proven;
Patristic period - when the Catholic Christian church began to dominate all spheres of people's lives in Europe;
The Scholastic period is when the dogmas expressed by the sages of past years were revised.

The most famous thinkers of this era were Tatian, Origen, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, John Chrysostom and others. Most of them were directly related to the church. Therefore, the phrases of various philosophers, known to us since the Middle Ages, were also originally conceived as related to religion.

Quotes from Renaissance Philosophers

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Western Europe, very quickly capturing all areas of knowledge - including philosophy. At this time, thinkers return to antiquity and revive ideas born in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The era is divided into several stages:

humanistic – when anthropocentrism was replaced by theocentrism;
Neoplatonic;
natural-philosophical.

The statements of thinkers at each of the above stages have their own characteristic features. In general Catholic Church began to have less influence on all spheres of people's lives and as a result split into Protestant and Catholic. Geographical discoveries made at this time also contributed to changing the picture of the world. The growing influence of science has led to the fact that everything larger number philosophers began to believe that the world is rational. Philosophy took a course towards heliocentrism (the idea of a world system with the Sun at the center), humanism, neoplatonism (a movement based on the ideas of Plato) and secularism (a proposal to separate the civil rights of people and the system of government from religion).

Prominent philosophers of the Renaissance were Dante Alighieri, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Boccaccio, Galileo Galilei, Machiavelli and others.

Quotes from modern philosophers

This period in philosophy began in the 17th century and lasted two centuries. Thinkers developed several directions:

empiricism;
rationalism;
materialism;
philosophy of education.

The names of the most famous thinkers of this era: Holbach and Leibniz, Hobbes and Bacon, Descartes and Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu.

Science moves forward by leaps and bounds, making one discovery after another, and its laws also affect philosophy, turning it into an experimental science. Rationalism and empiricism become the main directions of its development thanks to the social and scientific revolutions. Knowledge based on logic on the one hand and subjective feelings on the other occupies thinkers. Many works are devoted to knowledge itself - its laws, essence, goals and possibilities.

Quotes from modern philosophers

Classics, but also modern philosophers left many bright, wise sayings. The peculiarity of modern philosophy is that man is recognized as endowed unlimited possibilities for knowledge and creativity. At the same time, forces should be directed not at the outside world, but primarily at oneself. As soon as he manages to become better himself, everything that surrounds him will change.

The most famous modern thinkers include: Vonnegut, Peirce, James, Freud, Camus and others.

Each of the listed philosophers contributed to the knowledge of the world and man - his soul and life. Through their quotes, everyone can get to know themselves better and find the right path.

The superiority of philosophers over ordinary people lies in the fact that even if their basic theories collapse, their lives will continue. – Aristippus

Philosophy is an important phenomenon, not a secondary one. – Seneca (Younger)

In nature, only love is a bottomless and limitless quantity! No matter how you imagine, you will not find a limit to it. Schiller F.

The torch of love is often rekindled thanks to fiery jealousy. This is the philosophy of love. Margot Bressington

Philosophy, you control life, thanks to you cities are built, and disparate individuals are united into a living community. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Philosophy is the study of life experience. – Francesco Patrizi

Love can be given, but purchasing this feeling for money is out of the question. Longfellow G.

The main reason for philosophizing is the great desire to achieve happiness. Author unknown.

Love those around you, but don’t let them deceive you. – Kozma Prutkov

An overly passionate love feeling eventually becomes satiated. It has as little benefit to the stomach as food that is too tasty. Ovid.

Love is the most interesting human weakness, for which one can hardly be blamed. Dickens Ch.

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There are two types of love: one simple, the other mutual. Simple - when the loved one does not love the loving one. Then the lover is completely dead. When the beloved responds to love, then the lover, at least, lives in him. There is something amazing about this. Ficino M.

Not to be loved is just failure, not to love is misfortune. – A. Camus

When the one you love is not there, you have to love what is. Corneille Pierre

The girl who laughs is already half won.

The girlfriend's shortcomings escape the attention of the lover. Horace

When you love, you discover such wealth in yourself, so much tenderness, affection, you can’t even believe that you know how to love like that. Chernyshevsky N. G.

All buildings will fall, collapse, and grass will grow on them. Only the building of love is incorruptible, weeds will not grow on it. Hafiz

The moments of meeting and parting are for many the greatest moments in life. – Kozma Prutkov

False love is more likely the result of ignorance, rather than a lack of ability to love. J. Baines.

Love takes on meaning only when it is reciprocated. Leonardo Felice Buscaglia.

There are many cures for love, but there is not a single sure cure. – Francois La Rochefoucauld

Love is the only passion that recognizes neither the past nor the future. Balzac O.

Just as ugliness is an expression of hatred, so beauty is an expression of love. Otto Weininger

Love is in the heart, and therefore desire is impermanent, but love is unchangeable. The desire disappears after it is satisfied; The reason for this is that love comes from the union of souls, and desire - from the union of feelings. Penn William

You cannot love either the one you fear or the one who fears you. Cicero

The source of every error in life is a lack of memory. Otto Weininger

Constancy is the everlasting dream of love. Vauvenargues

Love itself is the law; it is stronger, I swear, than all the rights of earthly people. Any right and any decree Before love is nothing for us. Chaucer J.

Love is an amazing counterfeiter, constantly turning not only coppers into gold, but often gold into coppers. Balzac O.

One should love a friend, remembering that he can become an enemy, and hate an enemy, remembering that he can become a friend. – Sophocles

When we love, we lose sight. Lope de Vega

Deceived love is no longer love. Corneille Pierre

If a woman hates you, it means she loved you, loves you or will love you. – German proverb

Love is like a tree; it grows by itself, takes deep roots into our entire being and often continues to turn green and bloom even on the ruins of our heart. Hugo V.

Philosophy heals the spirit (souls). - Unknown author

A person feels his duty only if he is free. Henri Bergson

Love is the strongest, the holiest, the most unspeakable. Karamzin N. M.

There is no time limit for affection: you can always love as long as your heart is alive. Karamzin N.M.

Love for a woman has great, irreplaceable meaning for us; it is like salt for meat: permeating the heart, it protects it from spoilage. Hugo V.

Love is a theorem that must be proven every day! Archimedes

There is no force in the world more powerful than love. I. Stravinsky.

Equality is the strongest foundation of love. Lessing

Love that is afraid of obstacles is not love. Galsworthy D.

One day you will realize that love heals everything and love is all there is. G. Zukav

The science of good and evil alone constitutes the subject of philosophy. – Seneca (Younger)

Love is a person’s idea of his need for a person to whom he is attracted. – T.Tobbs

Love is not a virtue, love is a weakness that, if necessary, can and should be resisted. Knigge A.F.

Philosophy is the teacher of life. - Unknown author

In love, silence is more valuable than words. It’s good when embarrassment binds our tongue: silence has its own eloquence, which reaches the heart better than any words. How much can a lover say to his beloved when he is silent in confusion, and how much intelligence he reveals at the same time. Pascal Blaise

The woman does not want people to talk about her love affairs, but she wants everyone to know that she is loved. – Andre Maurois

The love of wisdom (the science of wisdom) is called philosophy. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Love is the desire to achieve the friendship of someone who attracts with their beauty. Cicero

Marriage and love have different aspirations: Marriage seeks benefits, love seeks!. Corneille Pierre

Love is blind, and it can blind a person so that the road that seems most reliable to him turns out to be the most slippery. Navarre M.

Love alone is the joy of a cold life, Love alone is the torment of hearts: It gives only one joyful moment, And there is no end in sight to sorrows. Pushkin A. S.

Love is the beginning and end of our existence. Without love there is no life. That's why love is something that one bows down to a wise man. Confucius

Love is a disease of tenderness. – A. Kruglov

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, takes deep roots into our entire being and often continues to turn green and bloom even on the ruins of our heart. – V. Hugo

No one can understand what it is real love, until he has been married for a quarter of a century. Mark Twain

Evolution is a continuously renewed creativity. Henri Bergson

Everything that is not colored by love remains colorless. – G.Hauptmann

Oh, how murderously we love, How in the violent blindness of passions We most certainly destroy that which is dear to our hearts! Tyutchev F. I.

Love should not ask and should not demand, love should have the power to be confident in itself. Then it is not something that attracts her, but she herself attracts. Hesse.

We fight to live in peace. Aristotle

A lover is always ready to believe in the reality of what he fears. Ovid

Love! This is the most sublime and victorious of all passions! But her all-conquering power lies in boundless generosity, in almost supersensible selflessness. Heine G.

To love means to admit that your loved one is right when he is wrong. – Sh. Peguy

In jealousy there is more love for oneself than for another. La Rochefoucauld.

Love burns differently according to different characters. In a lion, a burning and bloodthirsty flame is expressed in a roar, in arrogant souls - in disdain, in gentle souls - in tears and despondency. Helvetius K.

Every obstacle to love only strengthens it. Shakespeare W.

A lovers' quarrel is a renewal of love. Terence

To love means to stop comparing. – Grasse

Live first, and then philosophize.

Time strengthens friendship, but weakens love. – LaBruyère

Philosophy and medicine have made man the most intelligent of animals, fortune telling and astrology the most insane, superstition and despotism the most unfortunate. – D. Sinopsky

Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end. – Remarque

Triumph over oneself is the crown of philosophy. – Diogenes of Sinope

Love is the tendency to find pleasure in the goodness, perfection, and happiness of another person. Leibniz G.

Those who don't have one talk the most about the future. Francis Bacon

Love is the only one of all spheres of human communication that represents an amazing interweaving of spiritual and physical pleasure, creating a feeling of life being filled with meaning and happiness. S. Ilyina.

This is the law of lovers: They are all brothers to each other. Rustaveli Sh.

The only thing that matters at the end of our time on earth is how much we loved, what was the quality of our love. Richard Bach.

Isn't it a delusion to seek peace in love? After all, there is no cure for love, the elders tell us. Hafiz

Love is like a sticky disease: the more you are afraid of it, the sooner you will catch it. – Chamfort

Most of all people love to be loved.

Nothing strengthens love like insurmountable obstacles. Lope de Vega

Seeking variety in love is a sign of powerlessness. Balzac O.

Man has an eternal, elevating need to love. France A.

It is much easier to grieve for someone you love than to live with someone you hate. Labruyère J.

Marital love multiplies the human race; friendly love perfects it. – Francis Bacon

To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another. Leibniz G.

Love is like the sea. Its breadth knows no shores. Give her all your blood and soul: there is no other measure here. Hafiz

A person is ready to do a lot to awaken love, but decide to do anything to arouse envy.

Pythagoras was the first to give philosophy its name. – Apuleius

Love hurts even the gods. Petronius

Love is characteristic only of a sane person. Epictetus

Bring philosophy down to earth. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

The philosophy of each specialty is based on the connection of the latter with other specialties, at the points of contact of which it must be sought. Henry Thomas Buckle

A woman knows the meaning of love, and a man knows its price. – Marty Larney

It is easier for a woman to fall in love than to confess her love. And it’s easier for a man to confess than to fall in love. – Konstantin Melikhan

Love is the lamp that illuminates the Universe; without the light of love, the earth would turn into a barren desert, and man would turn into a handful of dust. M. Braddon

In love there is despotism and slavery. And the most despotic is female love, which demands everything for itself! Berdyaev N. A.

This is how nature works: nothing strengthens love for a person more than the fear of losing him. Pliny the Younger

The more love a person shows, the more people love him. And the more he is loved, the easier it is for him to love others. – L.N. Tolstoy

Love grows from waiting for a long time and quickly fades, having quickly received its reward. Menander

He who doesn’t love anyone himself, it seems to me, no one loves him either. Democritus

Love conquers everything, let us submit to its power. Virgil

Love, like fire, goes out without food. – M.Yu. Lermontov

I know for sure that love will pass, When two hearts are separated by the sea. Lope de Vega

Love should not fog, but refresh, not darken, but brighten thoughts, since it should nest in the heart and mind of a person, and not serve only as fun for external feelings that generate only passion. Milton John

When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. I want to serve. Hemingway E.

The truth is that there is only one highest value - love. Helen Hayes.

For a person who loves only himself, the most intolerable thing is to be left alone with himself. Pascal Blaise

Love is abundant in both honey and gall. Plautus

Joy and happiness are the children of love, but love itself, like strength, is patience and pity. Prishvin M. M.

Everything is for the best in this best of all worlds. Voltaire

When love comes, the soul is filled with unearthly bliss. Do you know why? Do you know why this feeling of great happiness? Only because we imagine that the end of loneliness has come. Maupassant G.

If you seek to solve any problem, do it with love. You will understand that the cause of your problem is a lack of love, for this is the cause of all problems. Ken Carey.

He who truly loves is not jealous. The main essence of love is trust. Take away trust from love - you take away from it the consciousness of its own strength and duration, all of its bright side, and therefore all of its greatness. – Anna Stahl

Love is a priceless gift. This is the only thing we can give and yet you still have it. L. Tolstoy.

Love is harder to break than hordes of enemies. Racine Jean

For love there is no yesterday, love does not think about tomorrow. She greedily reaches out to this day, but she needs this whole day, unlimited, unclouded. Heine G.

Old love is not forgotten. Petronius

You can't pick roses without being pricked by thorns. – Ferdowsi

Love is a competition between a man and a woman to bring each other as much happiness as possible. – Stendhal

WITH strong love black suspicions cannot get along. Abelard Pierre

He who did not know love was as if he had not lived. Moliere

Friendship often ends in love, but love rarely ends in friendship. – C. Colton

Philosophy is always considered a lamp for all sciences, a means for accomplishing every task, a support for all institutions... - Arthashastra

There are no Big Things without Big Difficulties. Voltaire

Neither mind, nor heart, nor soul are worth a penny in love. Ronsard P.

Love is too great a feeling to be only a personal, intimate matter for everyone! Shaw B.

If there was no one to love, I would fall in love with a doorknob. – Pablo Picasso

True love cannot speak, because true love is expressed in deeds rather than in words. Shakespeare W.

Others think that old love should be knocked out new love like a wedge with a wedge. Cicero

Love cannot be harmful, but if only it were love, and not the wolf of selfishness in sheep's clothing love... Tolstoy L.N.

Dying from love means living it. Hugo V.

Everyone's love is the same. Virgil

Love and hunger rule the world. – Schiller

Love cannot be cured with herbs. Ovid

Philosophy is the mother of all sciences. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

There is no such nonsense that some philosopher has not taught. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

What should guide people who want to live their lives flawlessly, no relatives, no honors, no wealth, and indeed nothing in the world can teach them better than love. Plato.

The first sign of love: in men - timidity, in women - courage. Hugo V.

There must be love in life - one great love in a lifetime, this justifies the causeless attacks of despair to which we are subject. Albert Camus.

Love destroys death and turns it into an empty ghost; it turns life from nonsense into something meaningful and makes happiness out of misfortune. Tolstoy L. N.

The first sign of love: in men - timidity, in women - courage. – V. Hugo

In love, longing competes with joy. Publius

The forces of love are great, disposing those who love to difficult feats and enduring extreme, unexpected dangers. Boccaccio D.

You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upward. M. Gorky.

Do we have the power to fall in love or not to fall in love? And is it that, having fallen in love, we have the power to act as if it had not happened? Diderot D.

Truth cannot contradict truth. Giordano Bruno

Like a fire that easily flares up in reeds, straw or hare's hair, but quickly goes out if it does not find other food, love blazes brightly with blooming youth and physical attractiveness, but will soon fade away if it is not nourished by the spiritual virtues and good character of young spouses . Plutarch

The one deceived in love knows no mercy. Corneille Pierre

There is love that prevents a person from living. Gorky M.

Love, love, when you take possession of us, we can say: forgive us, prudence! Lafontaine

The greatest joy in a person’s life is to be loved, but no less so is to love oneself. Pliny the Younger

Only those who have stopped loving are restrained. Corneille Pierre

If the choice in love were decided only by will and reason, then love would not be a feeling and passion. The presence of an element of spontaneity is visible in the most reasonable love, because from several equally worthy persons only one is chosen, and this choice is based on the involuntary attraction of the heart. Belinsky V.

Philosophy is the medicine of the soul. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Anyone who loves solitude, either - wild animal, or - Lord God. Francis Bacon

Choose who you will love. Cicero

Our life is a consequence of our thoughts; it is born in our heart, it is created by our thoughts. If a person speaks and acts with a good thought, joy follows him like a shadow that never leaves.

"Dhammapada"

Everything that changes our lives is not an accident. It is within us and awaits only an external reason for expression through action.

Alexander Sergeevich Green

Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but a task that we must do and honestly complete it.

Alexis Tocqueville

Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.

Albert Einstein


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To see all things in God, to make one's life a movement towards the ideal, to live with gratitude, concentration, gentleness and courage: this is the amazing point of view of Marcus Aurelius.

Henri Amiel

Every life creates its own destiny.

Henri Amiel

Life is a moment. It cannot be lived first in a draft and then rewritten into a white paper.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The calling of every person in spiritual activity is a constant search for the truth and meaning of life.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The meaning of life is only in one thing - struggle.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Life is a continuous birth, and you accept yourself as you become.

I want to fight for my life. They fight for the truth. Everyone always fights for the truth, and there is no ambiguity in this.

It is not necessary to look at where a person was born, but what his morals are, not in what land, but by what principles he decided to live his life.

Apuleius

Life - is a risk. Only by getting into risky situations do we continue to grow. And one of the biggest risks we can take is the risk of love, the risk of being vulnerable, the risk of allowing ourselves to open up to another person without fear of pain or hurt.

Arianna Huffington

What is a sense of life? Serve others and do good.

Aristotle

No one lived in the past, no one will have to live in the future; the present is the form of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember: only this life has value!

Aphorisms from literary monuments of ancient Egypt

We should not be afraid of death, but of empty life.

Bertolt Brecht

People seek pleasure, rushing from side to side, only because they feel the emptiness of their life, but do not yet feel the emptiness of that new fun that attracts them.

Blaise Pascal

The moral qualities of a person should be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.

Blaise Pascal

No, apparently death doesn’t explain anything. Only life gives people certain opportunities that are realized by them or are wasted in vain; only life can resist evil and injustice.

Vasily Bykov

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living.

Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev

Our life is a journey, an idea is a guide. There is no guide and everything stops. The goal is lost, and the strength is gone.

Whatever we strive for, whatever the particular tasks that we set for ourselves, we ultimately strive for one thing: completeness and completeness... We strive to become eternal, complete, and all-encompassing life ourselves.

Victor Frankl

Finding your way, finding out your place in life - this is everything for a person, this means for him to become himself.

Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Whoever wants to accept the meaning of life as an external authority ends up accepting the meaning of his own arbitrariness as the meaning of life.

Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov

A person can have two basic behaviors in life: he either rolls or climbs.

Vladimir Soloukhin

Only you have the power to change your life for the better, simply by intending to do so.

Eastern wisdom

This is the meaning of our stay on earth: to think and search and listen to distant disappeared sounds, since behind them lies our true homeland.

Hermann Hesse

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.

Guy de Maupassant

Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health - on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind towards something brings with it vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life.

Hippocrates

One thing, constantly and strictly performed, organizes everything else in life, everything revolves around it.

Delacroix

Just as there is a disease of the body, there is also a disease of the lifestyle.

Democritus

There is no poetry in a serene and blissful life! You need something to move your soul and burn your imagination.

Denis Vasilievich Davydov

You cannot lose the meaning of life for the sake of life.

Decimus Junius Juvenal

True Light is the one that comes from within a person and reveals the secrets of the heart to the soul, making it happy and in harmony with life.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, not realizing that the life he seeks is within him.

A person who is limited in heart and thoughts tends to love what is limited in life. One whose vision is limited cannot see beyond the length of one cubit on the road he is walking on or on the wall he is leaning against with his shoulder.

Those who illuminate the lives of others will not be left without light themselves.

James Matthew Barry

Look at every dawn as the beginning of your life, and at every sunset as the end of it. Let each of these short lives will be marked by some kind deed, some victory over oneself or acquired knowledge.

John Ruskin

It's hard to live when you haven't done anything to earn your place in life.

Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov

The completeness of life, both short and long, is determined only by the purpose for which it is lived.

David Star Jordan

Our life is a struggle.

Euripides

You can't get honey without difficulty. There is no life without sadness and adversity.

Debt is what we owe to humanity, our loved ones, our neighbors, our family, and, above all, what we owe to all those who are poorer and more defenseless than us. This is our duty, and failure to fulfill it during life makes us spiritually bankrupt and leads to a state of moral collapse in our future incarnation.

A person's honor is not in the power of another; this honor is in himself and does not depend on public opinion; her defense is not a sword or a shield, but an honest and impeccable life, and a battle in such conditions is not inferior in courage to any other battle.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The cup of life is beautiful! What stupidity it is to be indignant at her just because you see her bottom.

Jules Renan

Life is only wonderful for those who strive for a goal that is constantly achieved, but never achieved.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Two meanings in life - internal and external,
The external one has family, business, success;
And the inner one is unclear and unearthly -
Everyone is responsible for everyone.

Igor Mironovich Guberman

He who can fill every moment with deep content prolongs his life endlessly.

Isolde Kurtz

Truly, there is nothing better in life than the help of a friend and mutual joy.

John of Damascus

Everything that happens to us leaves one mark or another in our lives. Everything is involved in making us who we are.

Life is a duty, even if it were a moment.

Only he is worthy of life and freedom who goes to battle for them every day.

A person lives a real life if he is happy with the happiness of others.

Life, like the waters of the sea, is refreshing only when it rises to heaven.

Johann Richter

Human life is like iron. If you use it, it wears out, but if you don’t use it, rust eats it up.

Cato the Elder

It's never too late to plant a tree: even if you don't get the fruits, the joy of life begins with the opening of the first bud of the planted plant.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

What is more valuable - a glorious name or life? What is smarter - life or wealth? What is more painful - to achieve or to lose? This is why great passions inevitably lead to great losses. And indefatigable accumulation turns into a huge loss. Know when to stop and you won't have to feel ashamed. Know how to stop - and you will not encounter dangers and you will be able to live a long time.

Lao Tzu

Life should and can be unceasing joy

The shortest expression of the meaning of life can be this: the world moves and improves. The main task is to contribute to this movement, submit to it and cooperate with it.

Salvation does not lie in rituals, sacraments, or in the confession of this or that faith, but in a clear understanding of the meaning of one’s life.

I am sure that the meaning of life for each of us is simply to grow in love.

In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom lies the highest justice of life.

Leonardo da Vinci

The blessing is not in having a long life, but in how to manage it: it can happen, and it often happens, that someone who lives a long time lives short.